Theme song for Trump’s legal team, though I’m skeptical about the “done dirt cheap” part. Of course, they’re cheap from Trump’s standpoint — he’ll just stiff them.
AC/DC didn’t break in the States right away. This was the title song to a 1976 LP, recorded while Bon Scott was still alive. The song and album were both minor hits Down Under but didn’t get released in the U.S. until 1981, when the song reached No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock chart. By then Brian Johnson was the lead singer, and it’s usually his version that gets played nowadays. This is the original.
As for the song’s inspiration, Angus Young told Guitar World it sprang from his affection for the ’60s cartoon show “Beany and Cecil.” “It was a cartoon when I was a kid. There’s a character in it called Dishonest John. He used to carry this card with ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap — Special Rates, Holidays’ written on it. I stored up a lot of these things in my brain. I picked out the things I liked best.” Bon Scott even sings the phrase in a decent impersonation of Dishonest John.
I think Rudy Giuliani should get ahold of those business cards.